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its because they run straight cut gears in the reduction box. Same reason a race car box whines and the reverse gear on your car does too but the rest of the gears (angle cut) don't.

challenge accepted....

its actually his general lax attitude. His movements on deck, his hand signalling was less than deliberate... he just appears casual. Building a deck scene at the moment with some guys in the process of releasing the Tie down chains on a Valk and running a preflight check. New source of deck crew figures... http://reedoak.com/

Next up... you get to see the White Shirts, the Safety Observers, in action. One will spot a fault on a tail hook cover right before launch calling a halt and rectify to the launch, another will use the handy cutouts in the vests of the shooter to yank him back after he crosses the imaginary line drawn from the wingtip sidewinder pylon forward after the Ordnance crew make the aircraft live (Weapons External Master Arm On) and he walks into where the missile could fly if it accidently activated. Even though there is no ordnance loaded at this time, you always go though the motions. ALWAYS. Complacency kills. And from this shooters casual attitude and hand signals he's familiar with complacency. The Shooter then gets an on deck retraining chat which he's none to pleased with. That just makes his failure worse. In my trade, you screw up, you stand up, own it and learn from it, you don't shake you head about it. Starts at 3.30

Another Vid, this one from the Topside Petty officer POV (The green shirt hooking the Aircraft to the Catapult Shoe). Shows the Redshirt Ordnance Petty officer setting the aircraft to Weapons Systems Armed prior to launch by setting the Master Arm above the forward landing gear bay. Also shows whats actually checked by the TPO when they are looking at the nose gear, cat shoe and holdback bar immediately before launch. KEY NOTE: At 13.10 you will see the pilot complete his instrument scan and instead of a salute gives the dilibrate and clear headshake signal indicating an aircraft fault. The crew then have to remove the aircraft from catapult (Break Down the aircraft from launch) which you don't normally see on youtube and movie clips. The joys of Legacy aircraft beyond their hours, budget cuts and that Ahole Murphy. Also what bugs me as a Soldier is the physical difference between Navy and Army. There are some FAT Navy pers clearly skipping PT!

Another resource Video for any Deck builders out there. Taken POV from the Catapult Centre Deck Operators view. Shows a lot of the activity of the Cat crew for alternative positioning on our dioramas besides the moment of actual launch. I especially like the crew crowded around and hugging underside of the outside Hornet while they await the launch of the centre aircraft.

where did the arm come from?

Razor Saw

The bonus of having a genetic defect negating pain reception. The down side being a high disposition for somewhat reckless behaviour

I'e had a dremel fibre cut off wheel explode and bury a half wheel chunk between my eyes across the bridge of my nose to the bone. Slightly amusing when my safety goggles were in arms reach

Ohhhhhh have you not been cranking that screw down? That must have driven you nuts as the barrel will walk the dog right off the rubber or the rubber will spin inside the barrel and burn

Tighten the end screw down. It reforms the rubber insert to grip the sanding drum

They have drum sanding bits. Thats what I use

Wattpad has a translator for spanish to English?

Excellent work dude.

There is a white toner cart for laser printers now so you may be our first guinea pig to test it out here

I'l buy your wheels if you do. My two have been.... fun to set up on the carrier decks

Wheels up or down?

Narrowed the colours down to bright blue h5 and white h1. Now to work out the ratios

Also found 1/72 tiedown chains and cambuckles!

Sorry team. Was testing these but have quit modelling for the last 6 weeks plus after my daughter got hit on her motorbike and hospitalised. Back in the game now. Sorry to let you all down by not completing the testing in time

Reedoak figures... a new high detail source of alternate pose 1/72 deck crew

I have spares

Can you flick up a photo of the zents?

maybe they stumbled across the trailer for Season 5 Part 2 of Vikings and as Largetha looks to be in the shite... their brain when into zombie mode in an attempt to save their sanity